Sol Saks
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Sol Saks was an American screenwriter best known as the creator of television sitcom Bewitched
.
. He later wrote for radio and TV series such as My Favorite Husband
, Mr. Adams and Eve
, and I Married Joan
.
Saks wrote the screenplay for Cary Grant
's last film, the comedy Walk, Don't Run. At the time of its release, Time
said his dialogue on that film "bristles amiably from first to last."
Saks wrote The Craft of Comedy Writing, published by Writer's Digest Books.
. Saks died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia
on April 16, 2011, at the age of 100, in Los Angeles.
Bewitched
Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Dick Sargent , Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries a mortal and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban...
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Career
Saks was a radio actor as a childChild actor
The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor...
. He later wrote for radio and TV series such as My Favorite Husband
My Favorite Husband
My Favorite Husband is the name of an American radio program and network television series. The original radio show, co-starring Lucille Ball, was the initial basis for what evolved into the groundbreaking TV sitcom I Love Lucy. The series was based on the novel Mr. and Mrs...
, Mr. Adams and Eve
Mr. Adams and Eve
Mr. Adams and Eve is a CBS sitcom starring Howard Duff and his then wife, Ida Lupino, as a fictitious acting couple, Howard and Eve Adams, residing in Beverly Hills, California. In the television series, Lupino is known professionally as Eve Drake. The program aired sixty-six episodes from January...
, and I Married Joan
I Married Joan
I Married Joan is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. It starred veteran vaudeville, film, and radio comedienne Joan Davis as the manic wife of a mild-mannered community judge, Bradley Stevens .-Synopsis:...
.
Saks wrote the screenplay for Cary Grant
Cary Grant
Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...
's last film, the comedy Walk, Don't Run. At the time of its release, Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
said his dialogue on that film "bristles amiably from first to last."
Saks wrote The Craft of Comedy Writing, published by Writer's Digest Books.
Personal life
Saks attended Harrison High School in ChicagoChicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
. Saks died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...
on April 16, 2011, at the age of 100, in Los Angeles.
External links
- Extensive video interview with Saks from May 2009, from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences